LAR's Assistant Managing Editor interviews Agatha French, a staff writer in Books at the Los Angeles Times. She has worked as an editor for a number of literary journals and magazines, including the Los Angeles Review of ...
Interview with Agatha French
Interviews, LAR Online, Uncategorized
after a painting by the English artist, Stanley Spencer (1891-1959)
You had not known you belonged to such a region
until Spencer took you there, until he showed you
Cookham, where God made a detour down High ...
John Baptizes Jesus at the Odney Pool by Margaret Mackinnon
LAR Online, Poetry
When a dog slips out of a collar and runs toward a busy street, the instinct is to chase after it like
a madman, screaming at the dog to stop. At this point, it’s impossible to reason with the dog, but
in the moment, ...
When Dogs Run Away by Joseph Lapin
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Finalist for the LAR Short Fiction Award
By the time the human race on Earth ended, we were already living entire lives in the Cloud. Server maintenance had become automated by then, and renewable energy kept ...
Cloud Era by Jeff Moscaritolo
Fiction, LAR Online
You are giving a speech at parent-teacher conference night.
The speech is going well, and everyone is listening to you.
A woman in the back row is mouthing something over and over.
She is silently mouthing something ...
Little Nightmares by Meredith Maltby
Fiction, LAR Online
On December 15th, 2012, my wife and I went to a mall on the same day as a shooter. This was
the day after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Danielle was nine-months pregnant
and very much due on the 19th of ...
Mall Shooter by Blake Kimzey
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Reviewed by Ann Beman
Human Acts
A Novel by Han Kang
Hogarth, January 2017
$22; 224 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1101906729
In May 1980, student demonstrations set off a popular uprising in Gwangju, South ...
Book Review: Human Acts by Han Kang
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Litany of Hustle
Hustle the beat, double-time doubled.
Hustle from your second to your third job.
Hustle hard & hustle smart but hustle nonetheless.
Hustle, or else. Hustle tongue-poised to the neck line,
Hustle ...
Two Poems by Wesley Rothman
LAR Online, Poetry
